Quote Originally Posted by MikeSB View Post
Two points..

Are people ignorant or stupid? ie WTF is football being played in dire winter months when the chance of postponements is very high and then take almost three months off when fans could be sitting in their shirt sleeves? OK its always been like this but we need people with brains and intelligence to run this game. The ONLY reason we played in the winter was because cricket was almost as popular as football and they started playing when football ceased in early summer. Cricket is a non entity now.
Cricket a non entity? Never heard such tripe in all my life. Test cricket in this country in particular is on the up right now. Grounds full and rich entertainment. Give me cricket over football any day. Don't get me wrong, I will always want to watch my team but in the grand scheme of things, football comes a poor second to cricket.

Football, in the good old days as you never tire of telling us, was always a winter game starting towards the end of August and finishing towards the end of April. It starts earlier and finishes later now because of all the various additional cup matches (purely designed to generate income rather than entertainment) squeezed into the season. I would never support a winter break for the very reason there are a wealth of summer sports to enjoy